Category «Privacy»

Principles for Voluntary Efforts to Reduce the Impact of Botnets in Cyberspace

Industry Botnet Group Principles for Voluntary Efforts to Reduce the Impact of Botnets in Cyberspace “The proliferation of botnets and malware in cyberspace threatens to undermine the efficiencies, innovation, and economic growth of the Internet and diminishes the trust and confidence of online users. Every participant has a role in helping to reduce the impact …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Government Documents, ID Theft, PC Security, Privacy

CRS – U.S.-EU Cooperation Against Terrorism

U.S.-EU Cooperation Against Terrorism, Kristin Archick, Specialist in European Affairs, May 21, 2012 “…challenges persist in fostering closer U.S.-EU counterterrorism and law enforcement cooperation. Among the most prominent are data privacy and data protection concerns. The EU considers the privacy of personal data a basic right and EU rules and regulations strive to keep personal …

Subjects: EU Data Protection, Government Documents, Privacy

DHS National Operations Center Media Monitoring Capability Desktop Reference Binder 2011

Via EPIC FOIA release, Analyst’s Desktop Binder 2011 Redacted, Department of Homeland Security National Operations Center Media Monitoring Capability, Desktop Reference Binder. “MMC [media monitoring capability] coverage focuses primarily on providing information on incidents of national significance, which are usually defined as catastrophic events that result in wide-scale damage or disruption to the nation’s critical …

Subjects: Blogs, E-Government, Government Documents, Internet, Privacy

Governmental Access to Data in the Cloud – A comparative analysis of ten international jurisdictions

A Global Reality: Governmental Access to Data in the Cloud – A comparative analysis of ten international jurisdictions Governmental access to data stored in the Cloud – including cross-border access – exists in every jurisdiction, by Winston Maxwell, Paris, France Christopher Wolf, Washington, DC; May 23, 2012. A Hogan Lovells White Paper. “This White Paper …

Subjects: Cybercrime, E-Government, Government Documents, Legal Research, Privacy

FTC Testifies on Efforts to Protect Consumer Privacy

News release: “The Federal Trade Commission testified before Congress about the agency’s efforts to protect consumer privacy, including the FTC’s support for implementation of a “Do Not Track” mechanism that would allow consumers to control the tracking of their online activities across websites, and other approaches recommended in its recent privacy report. In delivering Commission …

Subjects: Congress, Cybercrime, Government Documents, Internet, Legislation, Privacy

Disappearing Phone Booths – Privacy in the Digital Age

Disappearing Phone Booths – Privacy in the Digital Age, by Erica Newland, May 2012 “I will…explain why the confluence of at least four circumstances – (1) digital ubiquity, (2) the increasing number of parties that take part in our daily transactions, (3) the commodification and monetization of data, (4) and woefully out-of-date privacy laws – …

Subjects: E-Government, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy

From Fingerprints to DNA: Biometric Data Collection in U.S. Immigrant Communities

“Today the Immigration Policy Center (IPC) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) release From Fingerprints to DNA: Biometric Data Collection in U.S. Immigrant Communities and Beyond. The paper outlines the current state of U.S. government collection of biometric information and the problems that could arise from these growing databases of records. It also points out …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, E-Government, Privacy

Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization

Ohm, Paul, Broken Promises of Privacy: Responding to the Surprising Failure of Anonymization (August 13, 2009). UCLA Law Review, Vol. 57, p. 1701, 2010; U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 9-12. Available at SSRN “Computer scientists have recently undermined our faith in the privacy-protecting power of anonymization, the name for techniques for …

Subjects: Internet, Legal Research, Privacy

Hearing on the Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance (GPS) Act

House Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security – Hearing on the Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance (GPS) Act – Statement for the Record of Professor Matt Blaze, May 17, 2012 Re – Geolocational Privacy and Surveillance Act, S. 1212: “GPS is only one technology for cell location, and while it is …

Subjects: Congress, Legislation, Privacy

EPIC: Privacy Board Approved by Judiciary Committee, Vote Moves to Senate

“The Senate Committee on the Judiciary has approved President Obama’s five nominees for the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. The Board is an independent entity charged with ensuring that fundamental rights are protected in the implementation of government programs, including cybersecurity. Originally convened in 2004, the five seats on the Board have remained vacant …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, Privacy

EPIC – FAA Revises Drone License Procedures, Privacy Petition Still Pending

EPIC: “The Federal Aviation Administration has announced new procedures for government agencies that operate drones in the United States. The procedures will streamline the process through which government agencies, including local law enforcement, receive drone licenses. However, the FAA has so far failed to establish privacy safeguards for drone use. On February 24, 2012, EPIC, …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Government Documents, Privacy

Senator Franken Requests Data on GPS Tracking of Citizen Movements

Via the ACLU, Letter from Senator Al Franken Chairman, Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law to Attorney General Holder on May 10, 2012, which reads in part: “I was very concerned to read recent reports suggesting that state and local law enforcement agencies may be working around the protections of United States v. Jones …

Subjects: Courts, Government Documents, Legal Research, Privacy